[rescue] Strange SBUS card

[Ken Hansen]

OK, here's my guess - and it is a real guess because I could hardly make out
anything on the board...

First off, that Intel chip is a real odd bird - assuming this card is
*about* as old as the SS/10 it was inside, it would most likely be either a
network controller or a CPU of some sort. My money is on CPU - I would think
a network chipwould be closer to the connector.

Second, that DB-25 connecter is strange - I didn't notice a lot of "buffer"
or "protection" circuitry around the connector, so whoever designed the card
*knew* exactly what was going to be on the other end of the cable.

Finally, that little connector next to the DB-25 *looks* like a power
connector, from a CD-player or radio, and I suspect this card required more
juice than the SBUS standard allowed for - so they had two choices, go
double-wide and occupy two slots, or they could simply have an off-board
"wall wart" to supply supplemental power to the board.

My opinion, this is a custom interface card that connects to a custom piece
of equipment, and it is *almost* useless to you unless, of course, you learn
something aboutthe card by translating the french text it provides as an id
string...

HTH,

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "mike dombrowski" <legodude at hammycorp.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 3:17 PM
Subject: [rescue] Strange SBUS card


> Time for another installment of "Name that sbus card". My SS10 reports
> it as a "LBus, uart LBus, tramnet MEI, lbus". No markings or part
> numbers on it that I can see. Made by Marquette Electronics, I think. A
> Google search turns up natch. This machine seems to have belonged to
> www.mei.com so I think it might be some sort of medical imaging
> controller. I'm gonna have to boot into single user mode to see if I
> can gather more info from the machine. Pictures:
>
> http://www.hammycorp.com/images/weirdsbusback.png
> http://www.hammycorp.com/images/weirdsbustop.png
>
> Also, this SS10 has ROM revision 2.7, in order to use 32mb dimms I'd
> have to upgrade it right?
>
> What is MVFS?
>
> Thanks
> Mike
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